
French President Emmanuel Macron addresses the nation, in Paris, France, March 5, 2025, in this screen grab taken from a video. — ReutersÂ
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PARIS: President Emmanuel Macron has increased the possibility of France by offering nuclear protection to his European partners, and warned that the continent will have to face the increasing threat from Russia.
France and Britain have only two nuclear powers in Europe.
Macron said in his television speech, “Our nuclear barrier protects us: it is complete, independent, through French and through it.”
“But, responding to the historic call of the future German Chancellor of the future, I have decided to open a strategic debate on the protection of my allies on the European continent through my (nuclear) barrier,” Macron said.
German Chancellor Anne Weeng Frederick Mirz has questioned whether NATO will remain in its “current form” by June and advocate for France and Britain to discuss its nuclear security.
France’s nuclear barrier strategy has been defensive so far and aims to protect the country’s important interests.
In his television speech, Macron also said that France would have to spend more on defense and would continue to support Ukraine. He acknowledged voters’ concerns over promoting the new international order of Russia and the US administration.
He said he wanted to believe that the United States would “stay with us”, while adding that Europe should be prepared if this was not the case anymore.
Macron told voters, “You are legally upset about current events, which are disrupting global discipline.”
“Russia has become a threat to France and Europe,” he said, adding that it would be crazy to see and do nothing. “
President Donald Trump has wandered to freeze US military aid and to raise doubts about Washington’s commitment to its European NATO allies, to promote defense spending and maintain Ukraine’s support.
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Macron also said he hopes that “the United States president will impose more taxes on European imports” will please and deny the United States President.
In the early days of the Cold War, former President Charles D. Gol created a nuclear prevention that was designed to be completely liberated from the then two dominant powers, the Soviet Union and the United States.
France’s nuclear barrier is based on air and sea, in which Rafael fighter aircraft and nuclear submarines are able to strike at any time at the behest of the French president at any time.
According to the Federation of American scientists, the United States and Russia now now have about 888 % of the world’s total nuclear weapons inventory. It states that France is estimated to have 290 nuclear warheads, while the UK has 225.
Macron told Portuguese media at the weekend that he could open a debate on France’s nuclear barrier, with right -wing leader Marine Le Pen immediately. Criticized.
In his television address, at an important European Union meeting on defense, Macron also said that France would spend more on defense – though it did not make it clear how much it was. He said that there would be no increase in taxes to support it, but there would be a tough choice.
Its pressure will not be easy to increase French defense spending as its government is struggling to curb the budget deficit.
Macron’s comments came when both the UK and Germany announce a major increase in defense spending.
Macron’s address came last week after a great meeting between Trump and President Woldmeer Zelinsky at the Oval Office, between Washington and Kiev, a surprising thing of European diplomacy between Ukraine and Kiev to seek support between Ukraine and Kiev.
Diplomats told Reuters that France and the United Kingdom are planning to finalize a peace plan with Ukraine, possibly “in a few days,” presenting to the United States, as well as a bridge between Washington and Kiev ahead of a possible dialogue in the United States.